Postdoctoral Researcher Job Offer

Posted: May 19, 2020
The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of Science I, Institute of Biology, Geobotany and
Botanical Garden, in cooperation with the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) HalleJena-Leipzig, offers the following position in the research group of Prof. H. Bruelheide in the research project “sMon- Biodiversity trends in Germany” in cooperation with Dr. Diana Bowler, Prof. Aletta Bonn, Prof. Florian Jansen and Dr. Marten Winter- starting on October 1st 2020 and initially limited for 12 months. An extension for further 36 months is possible and dependent upon successful
renewal of DFG funding for iDiv (evaluation in spring 2021).Location: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, GermanyClick to read more

Important announcment of local organizers of IAVS symposium about the situation related to pandemy of COVID-19

IAVS launches a third journal: Vegetation Classification and Survey

Posted: August 23, 2019

Since 1973, the journal Phytocoenologia has been published in collaboration with IAVS. Our involvement with Phytocoenologia will cease at the end of 2019, with the publication of the final issue of volume 49 and the Memorandum of Understanding between IAVS and the publisher of Phytocoenologia will end in May 2020.

We are excited to announce that IAVS will begin producing a new journal, Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) in 2020. This has been approved by an overwhelming majority of the IAVS Council. VCS will have the same scope, the same Chief Editors, and nearly all the Editorial Board members of Phytocoenologia.

VCS will be entirely gold Open Access, meaning that all papers will be freely available for download to anyone in the world. The journal will be published by Pensoft, an independent academic publishing company. The website for VCS is at the following link: https://vcs.pensoft.net/

The schedule of Article Publication Charges (APCs) is currently being worked out and will be announced before the end of 2019. It will be designed to make publication in VCS affordable, with discounts and waivers for those who are unable to pay the full APC.

Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) is an international, peer-reviewed journal of plant community ecology published on behalf of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS). It is devoted to vegetation survey and classification at any organizational and spatial scale and without restriction to specific methodological approaches. The journal publishes both original papers that develop new vegetation typologies and applied studies that use such typologies, for example, in vegetation mapping, ecosystem modelling, nature conservation, land use management or monitoring. Particularly encouraged are methodological studies that design and compare tools or algorithms for vegetation classification and mapping, vegetation databases, and nomenclatural principles. Papers dealing with conceptual and theoretical bases of vegetation survey and classification are also welcome. While large-scale studies are preferred, regional studies will be considered when they fill important knowledge gaps or present new methods. VCS also contains permanent sections on Ecological Informatics and Phytosociological Nomenclature.

We invite you to submit papers within the scope of VCS. Instructions for Authors and the online submission procedure can be found at https://vcs.pensoft.net/.

Dark Diversity Network - Call for Participants

Posted: October 5, 2018

Why are some species present and others absent in a locality? Only a subset of all species in a region can tolerate the ecological conditions of a given site (the site-specific species pool). Of those, not all are realized in local communities. The absent part of the species pool forms the dark diversity of a community.

Dark Diversity Network (DarkDivNet) is a new coordinated global sampling network to explore the dark diversity of plant communities. The main aims of the global network are:

to determine observed diversity, dark diversity and species pool in different habitats, and link them to abiotic and biotic factors as well as to human impact

to test and improve the methods for estimating dark diversity

to expand the dark diversity concept to include the functional and phylogenetic aspects of diversity

DarkDivNet aims to include globally replicated vegetation surveys from a wide range of ecosystems and environmental conditions. We are now inviting participants from all over the world to join DarkDivNet and contribute with one or more terrestrial study areas sampled at both local and regional scales.

If you are interested in joining DarkDivNet, please visit the DarkDivNet webpage (http://bit.do/darkdivnet) for the participation guidelines. For more information, click here to review the DarkDivNet Protocol or contact us at darkdivnet@ut.ee.

JVS-AVS Blog Launched

Posted: September 13, 2018

Editors of Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science launched the new blog at jvsavsblog.org, and invite authors of recently accepted or published papers to write some of the blog contributions.